boothewriter:hey hey hey here’s a little memo for writers“strong female character”don’t mean...

boothewriter:

hey hey hey here’s a little memo for writers

“strong female character”

don’t mean she’s cold, a loner, and has major flaws (or literally, can bench press a tiger)

i mean she could be

but here’s a concept

what they mean by “strong female character”, and it’s unwarped term of today, is a multi-dimensional woman, who has both strengths and weaknesses, and most of all is human (unless y’all writing bout aliens, you get the gist i hope)

by all means make her a damsel in distress, but make her an interesting one

give me a woman who’s cold and hides that she has ptsd from all of her killings

give me a stay at home mom that doesn’t just garden and bullet journal, but is an activist in an organization for anti-bullying at schools

this has been a Boo